San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-08
EDITORIAL BREVITIBs.

FOUR weeks from this morning and all
Texas will have an ear at the telegraph
wire to hear how the prohibition amend
ment has gone.
The smelter machinery has arrived at
New Laredo, and will be put in place as
rapidly rs possible. The city by the Rio
Grande feels r. g. over the prospect.
THE Paris Times is not nearly so rabid
as it was, and has not said eggs" once
since the immortal fourth. This moder-
alton deserves notice.
The saloon screens remain in place
until the years license, granted under
the old law, expires-sO says the at
tOrney general.
HARRIS and Dewitt counties run
neck and neck race for first bale hOnOrs
this year. 1t looks now rs though ref.
Crence TO the town clock would be nee
essary to decide the question.
The immigration question is a more
important question in American politics
than 1t is assumed TO be, and should re-
ceive more attention in political plat
forms than is accorded to it.
The Castroville Anvil editor sums up
rhumm's case in these words There
is one noticeable fact connected with
this Gaze, that is, that many OF Thumm's
former friends express the opinion that
Thumm has killed one man too many.
The locust sCOurge seems destined to
revisit the great northwest this season
Hhe experiences Of past devastatiOns
cad to the most lively apprehensiOns of
absolute destruction to crops in the
western sections of Iowa and Mime.
sofa, and over very wide range OF ter
ritory IN Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota.
The Longview Cycle complains of the
iow grade OF teachers employed, partis-
ularly in rural sections of the state and
AYERS that the average Of the low grade
teachers are not half competent. No
high grade Ofscholarship can be attained
without high grade Of leadership.
As seen by announcements in yester-
days LIGHT, the i-prOhibitionists OF
this section are getting into line anC
| will hold q few love fe8sts before The
day OF destiny which looms so omniOusly
over Texas rises and sets, to decide the
fate OF personal liberty.
| GROVER CLEVELAND feels put out be
cause the G. A. X. resented the insul
which he put upon them, and announce
that the light OF his cOuntenance will no
illuminate the darkness Of St. Louis
Daniel has counselled his master we'll IL
this thing.
PRESIDENT ADAMS, Of the Union Paci
fic, asserts that for every dollar Of tn,
stock OF that road now listed sixteeI
cents has actually been paid and tina
this is better showing than can b.
made by any road west Of Chicago. Al
eighty-fOur per cent profit on sixteeI
per cent investment Is rather a sOf
thing.
GALVESTON Is about establishing bag
ging factory that will employ about twt
hundred hands and supply all Texas
Now let San Antonio put 10 that long
talked of paper mill. The call for sucl
a mill lie urgent. Paper freiRhts arr
ruinous. A mill OF large capacity cOulC
find 3 guaranteed market for every
pound Of product without crossing thu
state borders.
STUNG by the constantly recurring
taunts Of his democratic advisers anC
critics, Cleveland has cut clear rom the
mugwump traces in the matter Of New
York appointment, and the Times o
that city Unlimbers its first gun. Ii
this the beginning of the end Of the
Times fOOlishness? II this adminIstra.
tiOn loses. the support Of New YOTk
I mugWumps 1t is doomed.